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Zalgie/Zalgo @zalgie.bsky.social · 18h

call your reps and demand that they oppose this legisation asap! 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) @foxyoreos.bsky.social · 1d

I understand that it's discouraging that these battles come up again and again and that we never get to permanently just say "NO".

But if you want a silver lining, think about how frustrated that makes you feel. They're not the only ones who can do that. We can also refuse to stop asking.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

A small victory! Chat Control has been tabled for now, but it can [and likely will] be brought up for vote again in December

In the meantime, EU citizens will need to continue pressuring their respective govts to oppose chat control

However, do so knowing that pressure WORKS.

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 2d

Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.

Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:

"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 18h

Do not let KOSA slip through your radar people, make damn sure to be vocal about your opposition to such dogshit bills.

Bombard your reps with calls and letters about being against this.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Katerian @katerian.bsky.social · 17h

We all have seen how horrible the Online Safety Act in the UK is

We don't want a US version as well

Call your reps and Demand they oppose this madness

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 17h

LP; if you are overwhelmed by trying to find the right words to tell your reps you oppose bills like KOSA and SCREEN, I've reposted scripts! If it's too much, read right from the script. If that's too much, don't not call. Just list the bills and tell them "don't you dare." But say something, please

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Daniel After Dark 🔞 @danielpoltergeist.bsky.social · 16h

my supposedly very progressive dem senator is on this list so plz do check it out even if you think your state is “safe”

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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LetUsAllExist (🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬🎈🥬) @letusallexist.bsky.social · 16h

Here's my updated script (refined through calling a few times,) to tidy things up for time, and specifically apply to both of them.

Call daily if possible!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 15h

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 17h

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Miji 🔞· ʀᴇɴᴍᴇɪ ʙʀᴀɪɴʀᴏᴛ ᴇʀᴀ @mijikaaitan.bsky.social · 14h

Yall have got to start spreading this like wildfire and start locking in

Otherwise if not, it will be too late and it’s goodbye to our internet safety and privacy forever

I am dead serious, please please PLEASE raise hell and spread awareness on this. Please don’t ignore this

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 14h

Another thing to do is to take this towards other parties, tell the greens you will support them if they take on the path against this.

Make it so the other parties start picking up the anti OSA, pro Paypros regulation, anti censorship route and if they do be loud about supporting them.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 15h

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 16h

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

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ΛTLΛS @atlasbun.bsky.social · 14h

Call your senator if you see them on this list and tell them no to KOSA.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 17h

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 18h

#SaveSpeech

Canadians! The UK is attempting to push their own version of the Online Safety Act onto Canada via the bill S-209!

You need to contact your representatives in parliament and explain how this policy is catastrophically bad! Mention the discord data breach!

youtu.be/Qx_zi1hNTCI?...

UK Pushing Online Safety Act to OTHER Countries

YouTube video by CYBER WAFFLE

youtu.be

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Space Man @spaceds8008s.bsky.social · 14h

When the fuck did this happen? WV doesn't have any av laws afaik. it goes away on vpn.

a user in WV not able to see adult content

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swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social · 13h

The focus on pornography and blaming it for every social problem has led to actual predators flying under the radar until it's too late.

Stop blaming porn and start finding actual solutions.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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darbishj.bsky.social @darbishj.bsky.social · 13h

Hope your plans turn out well!!

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 3d

The "free press" also launders genocide apologia for Netanyahu

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 27

Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions

Benjamin
@netanyahu
X.com
Facts matter >>
@TheFP
Mosab al-Debs
The 14-year-old boy was featured in the same CNN story as another child
"suffering from malnourishment." The original caption didn't mention that last May, he sustained a traumatic head injury amid what SHMS News Agency, a Gaza-based outlet, called "an Israeli shell" explosion.
8:20 AM • 8/26/25 • 835K Views

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 3d

I also wonder this quite often, especially when I think of the people I know who have received actual death and bomb threats over this, while Link has been banned for noticing someone died.

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 4d

"I am now working with all my strength; nothing matters to me like my children. I want to see them safe and for this nightmare to end." 🇵🇸

This is my brother Ahmed, who is one of the most dedicated fathers I have ever known.

His four year old son has a tumor in his neck.

They need URGENT HELP. 🧵

Donate to From a Home Full of Dreams to a Tent of Struggle, organized by mariam wajeh Alawar

My name is Ahmed . Before October 7, I worked as a designer. I h… mariam wajeh Alawar needs your support for From a Home Full of Dreams to a Tent of Struggle

www.gofundme.com

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 3d

Here you go.

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 7d

This is how "The Free Press" came to be.

Now, Bari Weiss is about to be the editor in chief of CBS news.

Until we make anti-trans political agitation unprofitable, trans people will never be safe.

#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 25d

"The Free Press" by Bari Weiss, first became a major publication when they laundered the "whistleblower" complaints of Jamie Reed, who lied about the practices of the pediatric gender clinic at the University of Washington in St Louis and led to AG Missouri Bailey trying to ban all trans healthcare.

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss wants trans people dead so badly that she was willing to doxx children over it.

Any discussion of her without including that as her origin story is bullshit.

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Fern Costas! @ferncostas726.bsky.social · 5d

I think its time we ask Parents with hard jobs and busy taking care of "muh kids" serious questions and think about how their kids are going to grow up.

You'll end up with a kid, being okay with censorship offline and online and growing up oversensitive thanks to legislation like this being passed.

GrandMummy Ree @loveree.bsky.social · 6d

Still more graphic in question cut down to size:

KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT
Pushes "duty of care" onto Big Tech and social media sites to remove content "harmful to children." It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove crucial information outlets to mental health, LGBT+ topics, eating disorders, and substance abuse.
PRIORITY: HIGH

STOP CSAM ACT OF 2025
Undermines services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content. It is a threat to free speech due to essentially creating a new exception to Section 230. This is a censorship bill masquerading as legislation to help protect children.
PRIORITY: HIGH

INTERSTATE OBSCENITY
This would change the definition of Obsenity to include anything that
"depicts, describes, or represents, an actual or simulated sexual act" and
"lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." This would lead to a potential blanket ban on anything pornographic and could very much lead to arrests for at least 50% of the country.
PRIORITY: MODERATE

SCREEN ACT
It would push websites to impliment methods to verify the age of users to ensure they are not a minor. This can lead to similar mass censorship, surveillance, and invasions of privacy akin to the Online Safety Act in the UK, and are proven to be a failure of a safety system. See Roblox or the multitude of porn sites who impliment them.
PRIORITY: MODERATE

FADPA
Establishes a process between copyright holders and liscences to go to court and have websites or internet services blocked for engaging in copyright infringement. This is essentially an "internet kill switch" with no checks, and can lead to broader censorship of internet freedom.
PRIORITY: MODERATE

Block BEARD ACT [draft bill]
This would impliment a legal process similar to the MCA which would force ISPs, search engines, and other mechanisms to block entire foreign websites. This can lead to broader internet censorship/suppression, have sites blocked for political dissent or contraversal speech, and lacks any form of public transparency on why sites would be cut off.
PRIORITY: LOW

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